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bougie

/boo-zhee, ‐jee/US // ˈbu ʒi, ‐dʒi //UK // (ˈbuːʒiː, buːˈʒiː) //

灌木丛,灌木灌木,灌木,灌木丛中

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : Sometimes Disparaging. relating to or characteristic of a person who indulges in some of the luxuries and comforts of a fancy lifestyle: He spends too much on bougie stuff he can’t afford.
    • : Also bour·gie [bur-zhee, ‐jee, boo‐] /ˈbɜr ʒi, ‐dʒi, ˈbu‐/ .Often Disparaging and Offensive. relating to or characteristic of a person who aspires to the upper middle class, especially when regarded as being elitist or snobbish: bougie Black folks moving out to suburbia or sending their kids to private school.
    • : relating to or characteristic of a person who flaunts newly acquired wealth without necessarily embracing the cultural values and pretensions of the upper middle class: that bougie feeling when you’re drinking high-end champagne—out of a red plastic cup.

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Examples

  • Ramp-obsessed urbanites have turned what was once a relatively obscure allium most popular in the Appalachian region into something that bougie New Yorkers hunt down at restaurants and farmers markets every April.

  • To enjoy fast food, then, was to reject bougie aesthetics and be a person of the people, to not yuck a yum.

  • Your friends may call you bougie, but just tell them you’re cultured.

  • For this purpose the bougie may be marked at its outer extremity.

  • (c) The tip of the bougie may break off whilst in the Eustachian tube.

  • Each was 5¼ inches in length, the handle measuring 1½ inches and the bougie the remainder.

  • All the same Bougie has little enough of interest for the conventional tourist.

  • Djidjelli, a hundred kilometres east of Bougie by a wonderful coast road, was the ancient colony of Igilgili of Augustus.